At 11:32 Uhr +0100 20.02.2002, Martin Costabel wrote: >Max Horn wrote: > >> Regarding gnumeric: we have this system lib version 50.0.0 issue, it >> might be nice if somebody wrote a mini package with a script that >> checks this problem and others, and automatically suggests (and if >> the users says "yes", also performs) and update of affected packages. >> This would also be nice for the next Fink release, and for the FAQ, >> we could just tell peoople: "run this script to check your system is >> ready" > >Max, > >in this connection I have a beginner's question: Is there some sort of >"apt-get reinstall" command? I couldn't see this in the docs.
I am not sure what you mean this to do ... "fink reinstall" will reinstall any installed package, no matter if it was installed via apt-get or fink. >The reason I would need this is that I am compiling my Fink stuff on a >another machine and then use apt-get to install it here. On the other >machine I ran your little script to detect the 50.0.0 dependencies and >ran fink rebuild on the packages detected. Ah, so what you want is not "apt-get reinstall" but more something like "apt-get refetch-and-install" :-) >Now I would like to get the updated packages over onto this machine. But >the version numbers did not change, so the only way I see is to use >"apt-get remove" followed by "apt-get install". But due to dependency >following, apt-get wants to remove practically my whole fink >installation, which I would rather avoid. This is also non-reversible: >"apt-get remove A" wants to remove all packages that depend on A, but >"apt-get install A" does not reinstall these others, of course. Yeah, so I'd suggest this: "man apt-get" :-) I did that mysself just now. There is an "--reinstall" option. Alternatively, you could just use "fink reinstall bal". Now you only need to make sure that apt-get redownloads the .deb. You could force that by rm'ing the local copy of the .deb, I am not sure if apt-get has an option to force a download. Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
